4730-1-01
Definitions.

(1)
"Direct supervision" means that the
supervising physician is physically present in the same room as the physician
assistant, with the physician assistant in the actual sight of the supervising
physician, when the physician assistant is performing the medical function,
task, or service requiring direct supervision.

(2)
"On-site supervision" means the
supervising physician is required to be physically present in the same location
as the physician assistant, but does not require the supervising physician's
physical presence in the same room.

(3)
"Off-site supervision" means the
supervising physician must be continually available for direct communication
with the physician assistant by such means as telephone or other real-time
electronic, active communication, and must be in a location that under normal
conditions is not more than sixty minutes travel time from the physician
assistant's practice location.

(8)
"Local
anesthesia" means the injection of a drug or combination of drugs to stop or
prevent a painful sensation in a circumscribed area of the body where a painful
procedure is to be performed, and is limited to local infiltration anesthesia,
digital blocks, and pudendal blocks. Local anesthesia does not include regional
anesthesia or any systemic sedation.

(9)
"Medical order" means one or more
diagnostic or treatment directives generated by a physician or physician
assistant that commands the execution of specific activities to be performed or
delivered as part of a diagnostic or therapeutic regimen of a patient.

(11)
"Licensure
registration period" means the period between granting of the initial or
renewed certificate to practice and the next scheduled renewal date for the
certificate to practice.

(12)
"Special services plan" means the portion of a supervisory plan that lists
services not specified in division (A) of section
4730.09 of the Revised Code,
that is either submitted for board approval as a portion of a supervisory plan
or as an addendum to a supervisory plan that was previously approved.